In a warming world, the fight for water can push nations apart—or bring them together.

And what we can do about it. By Joseph E. Stiglitz.

ICE told Carlos Rueda Cruz to focus on “illegal aliens” with criminal histories. He would need to produce one name per month or be sent back to Mexico. By Ryan Katz. (Sept. 24, 2018)

Widespread poverty and food deserts left Native Americans with the highest rate of diabetes in the country — but change is on the horizon

The founder of a global abortion-pill provider that has never shipped to the U.S. has quietly started a new service for Americans. By Olga Khazan.

In this guest edition of The Interview, Vikram Zutshi talks to physicist, activist and author Fritjof Capra. (Apr. 15, 2018)

The real meaning of the IPCC report isn’t “climate change is worse than you think.” We knew that. It’s “you now have permission to freak out.” By David Wallace-Wells.

The California senator questions the way the ex-Starr aide pushed back on a claim a witness was asked a sexually explicit question. By Josh Gerstein.

Amnesty International is calling on senators to to halt the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over his “possible involvement” in human rights violations after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. By Emily Birnbaum.

District failed to address early complaints about former Prairie Middle School teacher Brian Vasquez. By Noelle Phillips.

The former agent said that he could not stand by as he saw reports that the abuses he witnessed continue – including the destruction of water jugs. By John Washington.

On the British Columbia coast, the Heiltsuk First Nation asserts its rights to manage its resources, and who has access to them, through the seasonal herring harvest. By Ian Gill.

So much of mainstream journalism has descended to the level of a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission. Subjectivism is all; slogans and outrage are proof enough. What matters is “perception,” says John Pilger.

The thousands of people who lost Medicaid coverage this month in Arkansas for not following newly implemented work requirements may be a sign of what’s to come in other GOP-led states. By Jessie Hellmann. (Sept. 13, 2018)

The Snowden phenomenon was far larger than the man himself, larger even than the documents he leaked. It showed us the first glimmerings of an emerging ideological realignment—a convergence, not for the first time, of the far left and the far right, and of libertarianism with authoritarianism. It was also a powerful intervention in information wars we didn’t yet realize we were engaged in, but which we now need to understand. By Tamsin Shaw.

The Paris agreement on climate change charts a narrow path to avoiding a global apocalypse. Just one problem: Its centerpiece is a technology that basically doesn’t yet exist. By Abby Rabinowitz, Amanda Simson.

“We are about to drive a lot of dark money donors into the light—it’s gonna look like the climax of a Harry Potter movie where the creatures shrivel in the sun.” By Jon Queally.

With California suffering another devastating wildfire year, more people are wondering about whether and how global warming is contributing. A climate scientist explains. By Kevin Trenberth.

Bank of America has been accused of asking citizenship questions and for proof of residency, then freezing customers’ accounts after failing to properly recognize their current residency status. By Rob Wile.

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. By Ian MacDougall.